The same politicians who support Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine have responded to an attack that injured two Jewish Londoners by calling for a ban on demonstrations against that genocide.
The UK government contributes a range of services to Israel’s genocide project: weapons, military training, public relations, RAF real-time intelligence, and the criminalisation and jailing of UK citizens who oppose it.
Out of this moral abyss, those who facilitate and defend the mass murder of journalists, medical workers, teachers and schoolchildren now stake a claim to moral authority. They smear those of us who oppose the extermination of Palestinians, falsely implying we are culpable for the injury of two Jewish Londoners stabbed by a man with a long history of mental illness, including multiple hospitalisations.
Those who have worked tirelessly to brand all opposition to Israeli crimes as motivated by hostility to Jews now project their own behaviours onto supporters of Palestinian freedom. They accuse us of conflating anti-Zionism — opposition to Israel’s mass killings and destruction — with antisemitism, hostility to Jews per se.
Mainstream media coverage is notably disciplined in avoiding any mention of genocide, instead reducing events to seemingly aimless “Palestine marches”.
None of this is surprising. Those who support genocide will always seek to limit, constrain and ultimately ban opposition to the very crimes they arm and sanitise.
The two million Palestinians trapped in the Gaza concentration camp and killing zone have a claim on our solidarity. Those complicit in this destruction — by action or omission, through arms sales or silence — must be opposed to the limit of our ability.
We will not be intimidated.
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
1 May 2026